John McCain's "Old Friend"

Central player in the Watergate scandal, G. Gordon Liddy.

While right-wing blogs continue to fume over Obama's connection to the former anti-war radical, little has been written about Liddy and McCain, who appear to be much better friends. Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain's political campaigns since 1998 -- sending 25 times as much money to the Arizona senator than Ayers did to Obama.

Liddy also greeted McCain as "an old friend" when hosting the candidate on his talk radio show, Chapman writes, and McCain gushed at the "pleasure" he took in appearing and praised Liddy's "adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."

Muses Chapman, "Which principles would those be? The ones that told Liddy it was fine to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee to plant bugs and photograph documents? The ones that made him propose to kidnap anti-war activists so they couldn't disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention? The ones that inspired him to plan the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist?"

The Obama-Ayers connection has not received near the amount of coverage as Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but it continues to roil the conservative blogosphere. ABC's George Stephanopoulos thrust Ayers into the spotlight during last month's Democratic debate asking a question suggested by at least two conservative talk-show hosts. Whether the crimes of Watergate will be revisited in any serious way as they relate to McCain remains to be seen.

From the media so far? Crickets. McCain continues his free ride on the Pandering Media Express.

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